The Last Frontier of Fire and Sword

***·The fierce battle between Grey's army and Ackerman's garrison was almost at the same time that Cheerchen launched his operations in Kafa.

And this first battle started between Uzenbey and Yelisei.

While Uzenbey led a herdsmen army of 3,000 people toward Ackerman and was preparing to sweep the villages around Ackerman, Yelishei led two hundred Hessian cavalry and a herder army of more than 1,000 people. Reconnaissance towards Kilbrun Fortress.

At the front of the team, Yelishei, who was wearing a mirror armor all over his body, asked Nahai, who was riding beside him, "Nahai, are you sure that the enemy will send a vanguard to sweep this neighborhood?"

Nahai smiled and said to Yelishei: "Believe me, Yelishei. We Tatars know the Tatars just like you Russians know the Russians."

This Nahai was the leader of the Tatar raider who had gathered more than a thousand people on the road from Bujak to Ackerman to attack Chechen and finally gave up.

After Muhammad Gley occupied Ackerman, in order to enrich his own strength, Muhammad Gley recruited troops wildly. And Nahai took refuge in Muhammad Glyy at this time.

Of course, Nahai took refuge in Muhammad Gley not because he believed that Muhammad Gley could defeat his brother. On the contrary, Nahai was basically pessimistic about Muhammad Gley's victory. He joined the former Khan side purely for money-Muhammad Glyy paid twice as much as Isilan Glyy.

At that time, Na Hai's thought was: Anyway, a grassland bandit like them, once the war is unfavorable, the soles of the feet should be top-notch, regardless of honor and credit.

But when it came to Ackerman, when Nahai knew that the main force defending Ackerman was the caravan he had coveted, and they caused a lot of losses to Ackerman’s army led by Ahhum Mirzan in one night. , Na Hai's mind changed.

Nahai's keen intuition told him that if it were the caravan (mercenary group), perhaps Muhammad Glyy might win, and it would not be impossible to even defeat his own brother.

Everyone can do the icing on the cake, but it is extremely rare to give charcoal in the snow. Nahai decided to be the one who gave the money in the snow, because that kind of reward was extremely generous, so he made a big bet for this. Nahai followed the example of Bayezid Khan and put the boots with the portrait of Ishran Glyy on his feet, and publicized the matter widely. This undoubtedly tied him to Muhammad Gley's chariot, and it also allowed him to gain the great trust of Muhammad Gley. On the day Nahai swore allegiance to Muhammad Glyy, Nahai received the title of Mirza.

This time in the outpost investigation, Yelishi I was going to take two hundred Hessian cavalry with him, but Nahai insisted on following. Moreover, he has far more people than Yelishei, but he is willing to be Yelishei's deputy.

Although the way the Tatars speak in Nahai makes Yelishei a little twisted, with the assurance of Nahai, Yelishei lets the scouts radiate to a farther range, and he and Nahai are Stay where you are.

Not long after, Hasar rode a prairie horse back from the northwest. He brought an important piece of information-a herder army of more than 3,000 people was looting a nearby village.

I heard that the enemy has more than 3,000 people. Except for Yelishei, Nahai, and Hasar, most of the officers in the army are embarrassed. In their view, the strength of one thousand two to three thousand people is really far apart. What's more, the two units use the same tactics and the same weapons.

"We're going to kill them now." Hasar yelled, brandishing a simple tatar saber. His complexion was flushed, and it was obvious that the battle hadn't arrived yet, and his blood had already boiled.

No one responded to him. Hazard might be a fierce general who charged forward, but arranging troops is really not his strong point, so his opinions are of no reference value.

"Nahai, tell me what you think of this enemy force." Yelisei asked.

Although Tsarist Russia also often fought the Crimean Khanate at that time, Yelishei never experienced it. The first battle of his life was the battle with Smolensk in the Republic of Poland, after which he followed Chechen. So about how the Tatars fought, most of Yelishei's knowledge of this kind comes from the elders. That's why he asked about the sea.

The sea pondered.

He said: "According to what I know about the Khanate army, only one-sixth of the 3,000-person herder army should be the regular army of the Khanate, and most of the others are herders recruited from various tribes. Composition. They are similar to our equipment."

"Oh, that's two thousand five hundred people." Yelishey nodded.

"Yes, according to our Tatar tactics, a three-thousand-man shepherd army will spread out extremely wide wings to surround the enemy, and then use bows and arrows to consume the enemy’s vital power and create fear. The most elite heavy cavalry made the final blow.

"Then do you have any way to destroy this enemy?"

Obviously, Yelishei wanted to fight this Isilan Glyy's vanguard. After all, a victory will greatly boost the morale of Ackerman's defenders.

In this regard, Nahai said: "This is impossible, the strength of the troops is too great. I hope your Excellency will give up this unrealistic idea. But we can bite a piece of flesh on the enemy through reasonable tactics."

"That's enough." Yelishei patted Nahai on the shoulder. He felt that he liked this Tatar who was both confident and careful more and more.

The whereabouts of the cavalry led by Yelisei also couldn't be concealed from Uzenbey. When the Bey knew that an enemy was approaching him through the scouts scattered around, Uzenbey quickly gathered his men who were setting fire and looting.

The officers of all levels under Uzenbeyi gathered the red-eyed and red-eyed soldiers with their whips and knives, and greeted them in the direction of Yelishei's advance.

As Nahai estimated, the herdsmen army led by Uzenbeyi was still deployed in a traditional way. After finding that the number of opponents was far less than himself, the frontal width of the battlefield spreading out from the left, middle and right three parts was twice as wide as the opponent.

Fifty Tatar heavy cavalry and 450 Crimean princes guards constitute the core of the whole army. Bey himself and the four hundred Crimean princes' guards are located in the center of the battle line, looking at the whole situation. The most elite Tatar heavy cavalry is in charge of the formation behind Bey, and they will be thrown into the battlefield when the victory is decided.

On the left are the Crimean Zasak cavalry. These light cavalry were only equipped with longbows and sabers, and their armor was very simple, but due to the large number of people, the smoke and dust rolled up by the horses was astonishing.

On the right flank is the Crimean Oguran cavalry. These cavalry are equipped with spears and simple shields, and are good at launching lance charges. Uzenbey arranged the Oguran cavalry on the right flank, undoubtedly realizing that the terrain on the right flank was flatter, which was more conducive to the cavalry charge.

And the cannon fodder recruited from all over the city and country-Crimean slave soldiers, they are in the front line of the Chinese army. These slaves who used bows and arrows were the exporters of firepower and the bearers of the first wave of attacks.

The cavalry that Nahai led and adapted from the Tatar Raiders were also lined up in a line, and their spread out front was only one-third of the opponent's. Hasal led two hundred cavalry troops to ran back and forth in front of the two armies, rolling up a large amount of smoke and dust to cover the formation, so as to prevent Uzenbey from discovering the reality of his own troops.

The most elite two hundred Hessian cavalry led by Yelishei hid behind the smoke wall and the Tatar raiders went around to the flanks of the Oculan cavalry, where they would act as deadly daggers against the enemy. Unleash a fatal blow.

The battle was fought first by Uzenbey’s army. Their Zasak cavalry and Crimean slaves rode forward together and shot deadly sharp arrows at Hasar's cavalry. These arrows were dense and deadly. Although Hasar's cavalry also launched a counterattack with bows and arrows, the amount of arrows projected between the two was not at all an order of magnitude, and they were quickly defeated.

Then Uzenbey ordered the battle-tested commander Apakmirzan to play. He led the Zasak cavalry on the left and launched the first wave of assaults towards the sea.

The Crimean Tatar cavalry is a nomadic cavalry who really loves riding and shooting. The Zasak cavalry threw a series of Tatar arrows in the high-speed running to cover the sky, and fell on the head of the cavalry led by the sea.

"Hold the shield! Charge!" Na Hai shouted.

More than eight hundred cavalrymen quickly or slowly raised their shields to cover their heads, then straightened their cavalry guns and rushed towards the Zasak cavalry.

Arrow rain fell, and cavalry and war horse arrows fell from time to time.

But most people survived the arrow rain, and they collided with the Zasak cavalry. Suddenly, the sound of shouts of killing, the cracking of shields, the piercing of cavalry guns, and the sound of sabers chopping.

The Zasak cavalry under the command of Uzenbeyi charged and shot at the edge. When they came into contact with the cavalry in Nahai, most of them could not draw close combat weapons in the future. Therefore, in the first round of confrontation, the Zasak cavalry’s Far more casualties are greater than opponents.

The sea's saber slashed left and right, and after a while he slashed off a saber that had been slashed, and after a while the head of a Zasak cavalry was smashed by him.

The Zasak cavalry seemed a little unstoppable and began to retreat, while the cavalry of the sea clenched the enemy tightly.

A sneer appeared at the corner of Uzenbeyi's mouth.

Obviously, his opponent was too overwhelmed, forgetting that the best thing as a Tatar is to lure the opponent to pursue through deceit, stretch the front, and then outflank it.

Uzenbey raised a hand. The Oculan cavalry on the right flank received the signal, and one after another, the cavalry guns crossed the horse's head to the front and turned the horse's head—the sea cavalry that they would strike from the flanks.

"drive!"

The Oculan cavalry urged the horses to change their formations in order to go around the enemy's flank with the enemy.

At this moment, something unexpected happened. A western-style cavalry in black and black armour emerged from behind the Oculan cavalry, who was changing their formation, and rushed into the unsuspecting right flank.

The cavalry guns of the Oculan cavalry are suitable for high-speed assault but not for melee combat, and their simple shields are like paper in front of the broadswords and muskets of the Hessian cavalry. In the blink of an eye, thirty or forty Oculan cavalry fell their horses.

Seeing his right flank being attacked, especially a warrior with a white horse and black armor constantly knocking his cavalry off the horse with a page hammer, Uzenbey held the whip with his left hand and hit his right palm severely.

He really underestimated the enemy.

"Come with me and go to the right wing." Uzenbey shouted.

The Crimean slave soldiers who stood in front of the cavalry wanted to turn sideways to make way, but they did not receive strict discipline training but made the scene even more chaotic.

In fact, the lack of organizational ability and discipline was a common problem in the armed forces of Eastern European countries at that time. Fortunately, the Swedish army, after Gustav's reforms, was the first to enter the threshold of a modern army. It is precisely because of this that in the second Warsaw War, the army led by Karl X was able to complete the change in front of the enemy without any danger.

The Republic of Poland and Tsarist Russia, except for some new troops and mercenaries trained by Western European instructors ~www.wuxiamtl.com~, also have such problems. As for the Crimean Khanate, the product of the disintegration of the Golden Horde, since the 17th century, due to the tradition of riding and shooting, it has slowly changed from the nomadic empire that scared the Principality of Moscow and the Republic of Poland. He became a full-time human trafficker and part-time fighter of the Ottoman Turk Empire, and the battles depended on a large number of people. It was only because the cavalry was still the main force to determine the victory or defeat on the battlefield in that era, and the Khanate was able to summon tens of thousands of nomadic cavalry, which made them still fear the nations.

Seeing that his subordinates were being slaughtered every minute, but the cannon fodder in front of him prevented him from moving forward, Uzenbeyi was angry. He drew his saber and cut a path in front of him.

Seeing that the enemy's commander could be so cruel and cruel, Yelishei's men had already caused a lot of damage to the right-wing Oculan cavalry. He hurriedly blew his whistle and signaled to retreat.

At the same time, Na Hai also whistled.

The chasing cavalry slowed down, they stopped chasing and began to retreat.

The Zasak cavalry who pretended to retreat wanted to drag the cavalry in Nahai, but the cavalry in Nahai turned around and shot arrows to block the enemy's pursuit.

Seeing that the two enemies on the left and right were about to flee, Uzenbeyi made a decision in a very short time-he turned around and rushed towards the sea.

Although Uzenbey is young, he has good judgment. He could see that the cavalry of the right wing was more effective and more difficult to deal with; while the left wing was fighting fiercely, but it was the same Tatar as himself, dealing with his compatriots and dealing with the same tactics, Uzenbey still Very confident. Therefore, Uzenbeyi avoided the strong and weakened, and chose to pounce on that sea.